Blindspot Capital
by by FemmeHealth Alliance
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Why Great Healthcare Ideas Still Fail
Why Great Healthcare Ideas Still Fail
About this podcast
Exploring the big ideas, trends and investment potential in the future of women's health
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Episodes
- Why Great Healthcare Ideas Still Fail · 26 minSome healthcare companies fail because the technology doesn’t work. Others fail because the market moves, capital runs out, or they simply cannot scale fast enough. But there is…
- The Menopause Information Crisis · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 6Some markets follow a familiar script: a need emerges, founders respond, capital flows, and eventually, the sector matures. But women’s health doesn’t work like that. In a recent…
- Building FemTech Infrastructure in Asia · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 5Some markets follow this script: A need appears. Entrepreneurs respond. Capital flows in. Eventually, the sector matures and innovation accelerates. But some markets don’t follow…
- Before Venture Shows Up | How Catalytic Capital Creates Women’s Health Markets · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 4In this episode of Blindspot Capital, Maryann sits down with Cristina Ljungberg and Wendy Anderson, co-founders of The Case for Her, to unpack what happens before venture capital…
- Why It Takes Years to Build in Women’s Health · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 3Most innovation stories are told as clean upward lines. A founder has an idea. Investors come in. The product launches. Growth follows. Eventually there is an acquisition or an…
- Why Women’s Heart Disease Is Still Misdiagnosed · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 2In this episode of Blindspot Capital, Maryann sits down with Professor Angela Maas (cardiologist and pioneer of sex- and gender-specific cardiology) to unpack why women’s heart…
- How Hormones Change Women’s Hearts and Why Cardiology Wasn’t Built to See It · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 3In this episode of Blindspot Capital, Maryann Selfe speaks with Professor Carolin Lerchenmüller, cardiologist, clinician-scientist, and Switzerland’s first Chair of Gender…
- Tough Love for Women’s Health Founders · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 6In this episode of Blindspot Capital, Maryann sits down with Lisa Suennen - longtime healthcare investor, founder of the Venture Valkyrie blog, and Managing Partner of the Go Red…
- The Silent Ban: How Social Media Is Censoring Women’s Health · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 5In this episode of Blindspot Capital, Maryann sits down with Anna O’Sullivan, co-founder of censhership.co.uk and FutureFemHealth, to unpack a deeply underrecognized systemic…
- She Coined ‘FemTech’. Now She’s Rewriting the Narrative on Women’s Health · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 4What if naming something was the first step to making it investable? In this episode of Blindspot Capital, I sit down with Ida Tin, entrepreneur, systems thinker, and the woman…
- Why Most Digital Health Startups Will Fail · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 3Half the headlines in healthcare are hype. But what if we stopped chasing the next shiny thing and started fixing the fundamentals? In this episode of Blindspot Capital, I sit…
- What Real Science in Women’s Health Looks Like · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 2Half the population experiences these conditions. Many are universal, recurring, and clinically significant. Yet in the eyes of too many investors, women’s health therapeutics…
- A Drop of Blood That Could Save Millions: The Future of Preeclampsia Diagnosis · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 1In this episode, healthcare investor and strategist Maryann Umoren Selfe is joined by Matthias Wipf, CEO of Swiss medtech company MOMM Diagnostics, to examine the systemic gaps…
- Blind Spot Capital is Here! · 1 min · Season 2Blind Spot Capital Podcast Trailer Welcome to Blind Spot Capital, the podcast where health innovation meets investment insight. Every year, investors bet billions on the future…
- Episode #6: This Startup Is Changing the Way We Detect Cervical Cancer · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 6A few weeks ago, Ronald Vos and Nutte van Belzen, the founders of CC Diagnostics were at a major European medical congress when they were approached by a woman who didn’t work in…
- Episode #5: Transforming PostPartum Care with AI · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 5In this conversation, Maryann and Astrid Gyllenkrok, CEO and Co-Founder of LEIA Health discuss the challenges of parenthood, particularly focusing on the postpartum experience…
- Episode #4: Breaking Barriers in Drug Delivery for Women · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 4In this episode of FemmeHealth Founders, Maryann speaks with Dr. Lara Zibners, co-founder of Calla Lily Clinical Care, about the inadequacies in current drug delivery methods for…
- Episode #3 - The Story Behind OvulaRing · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 3In this episode of Notes to Selfe, we dive into the fascinating world of women's health innovation with Sebastian Alexander, founder and CEO of VivoSensMedical. We explore the…
- Femme Health Founders Episode #1 · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 1Hormones rule our lives—from puberty to menopause, they influence everything from our mood to our health. But why do some women experience severe side effects while others don’t?…
